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Sexes of Ponies??
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<blockquote data-quote="Beefy" data-source="post: 43035" data-attributes="member: 57"><p>the stud. mares (females) have two X chromosomes. Studs (males) have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. X means female, Y means male. foals get one chromosome from each parent. They get an X chromosome from the mare b/c thats all she has. there is a 50% chance of getting an X and a 50% chance of getting a Y from the stud, it just depends on which spermatozoa fertilizes the egg first. so you wind up with one of two scenarios: XX = female or XY = male. </p><p></p><p>There is some research being done in cattle to sort spermatazoa into male and females. this would be tremendous to the cattle industry b/c you could AI to get all males or all females. I dont know about in horses, but to answer your question theres not really any easy nonscientific way to effect the sex you will get. wives tales? probably. but nothing that really really works as far as i know of.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefy, post: 43035, member: 57"] the stud. mares (females) have two X chromosomes. Studs (males) have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. X means female, Y means male. foals get one chromosome from each parent. They get an X chromosome from the mare b/c thats all she has. there is a 50% chance of getting an X and a 50% chance of getting a Y from the stud, it just depends on which spermatozoa fertilizes the egg first. so you wind up with one of two scenarios: XX = female or XY = male. There is some research being done in cattle to sort spermatazoa into male and females. this would be tremendous to the cattle industry b/c you could AI to get all males or all females. I dont know about in horses, but to answer your question theres not really any easy nonscientific way to effect the sex you will get. wives tales? probably. but nothing that really really works as far as i know of. [/QUOTE]
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